The 7-Eleven convenience store in Remington closed permanently this month, a sign that the property owner is moving ahead with plans to replace it with a six-story apartment building.
Workers have placed two large dumpsters outside the entrance and stripped the store’s orange, green and red sign from the top of the building at 211 W. 28th St.
The triangular parcel is owned by Seawall, a local developer that’s working on the 28th Street project with Charm City Buyers. The team has unveiled plans to replace the store with a $19.3 million apartment building containing one or two commercial spaces at street level, 60 apartments on five floors above and a parklike community space called The Plaza at the south end, where the community’s ‘R’ sculpture stands. PI.KL Studio is the architect and Floura Teeter is the landscape architect…